The Mars Room : a novel / Rachel Kushner.
"From twice National Book Award-nominated Rachel Kushner, whose Flamethrowers was called "the best, most brazen, most interesting book of the year" (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine), comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, which Kushner evokes with great humor and precision. Stunning and unsentimental, The Mars Room demonstrates new levels of mastery and depth in Kushner's work. It is audacious and tragic, propulsive and yet beautifully refined."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982100759
- Physical Description: 338 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition: Scribner export edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
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Burns Lake Public Library | AF KUS (Text) | 35198000666744 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Fort St. John Public Library | AF KUS (Text) | 35211000374514 | ADULT Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Galiano Island Community Library | FIC KUS (Text) | 33127000148900 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Hazelton Public Library | Fic (Text) | 35154000121354 | Adult Fiction - Main Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |
Louise Public Library | AF KUS (Text) | 36761000107875 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Midway Public Library | Fic KUS (Text) | 35143000354255 | Adult Paperback | Volume hold | Available | - |
Salmo Public Library | FIC KUS (Text) | 35163000162730 | Adult Fiction (hardback or trade paperback) | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-05-23 |
Salt Spring Island Public Library | FIC KUS (Text) | 33123009600454 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Castlegar Campus Library | KUSHNR MARS (Text)
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Elkhorn Branch - Border Regional Library | F Kus-E (Text) | 36830003104542 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |